Windows 7 and Vista Guide to Scripting, Automation, and by Brian Knittel

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By Brian Knittel

The single HANDS-ON, up to date consultant TO VBSCRIPT, THE home windows COMMAND LINE, AND home windows POWERSHELL
home windows 7 and Vista include cutting-edge instruments for streamlining or automating nearly any process administration job. If you’re an influence person, administrator, or developer, those instruments should help get rid of repetitive paintings and deal with your structures way more reliably and effectively.

well known home windows specialist Brian Knittel brings jointly the sensible wisdom you should utilize a majority of these instruments, together with VBScript and home windows Scripting Host (WSH), conventional batch records, the complicated PowerShell command console, and extra. utilizing lots of examples, Knittel explains how each one instrument works, and the way to unravel real-world issues of them.

You’ll grasp innovations starting from having access to documents to manipulating the Registry, sending computerized emails to configuring new clients. Knittel additionally offers concise, convenient references to home windows 7/Vista’s command line, GUI scripting, and object-based administration tools.

the single single-source advisor to all best equipment of home windows scripting and automation, this ebook might help you get way more done–in some distance much less time!
* Understand home windows Scripting Host (WSH) and the trendy home windows scripting environment
* Script gadgets with VBScript, JScript, ActivePerl, and ActivePython
* Read and write records, together with XML and HTML files
* Manipulate courses and shortcuts
* Manage community, printer, and fax connections
* Make the main of PowerShell below home windows 7 and Vista
* Monitor and administer home windows platforms with home windows administration Interface (WMI)
* Use ADSI to regulate energetic listing and Microsoft trade, and deal with clients extra efficiently
* Avoid blunders that may compromise script safety
* Use Windows’ debugging instruments to check and troubleshoot scripts
* Develop batch documents that take complete good thing about the command line
* Send faxes and e mail messages from scripts with home windows Fax and Collaboration information gadgets (CDO)
* Deploy your scripts all through your organization

Brian Knittel has been a software program developer for greater than 30 years. He has coauthored 5
titles in Que’s certain version utilizing sequence, overlaying Microsoft home windows Vista, XP, and 2000.
He is usually writer of Windows XP less than the Hood, and coauthor of Upgrading and Repairing Windows (with Scott Mueller).

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For security reasons, some people or companies configure their Windows computers not to run VBS scripts with just a double-click. If this happens to you, don’t worry; just read on. To see how this dialog box appeared, let’s take a look at the contents of the script file, line-by-line. ” 17 18 Chapter 1 Windows Script Host Lines 1 and 2 are comments. In VBScript, anything after a single quote character (‘) is ignored. Their job is to help you and other people understand what the script does. It’s a good idea to add comments to all your scripts, describing what they do and how they do it.

3. In the upper part of the dialog box, if there is an existing PATH entry, double-click it. Click in the Variable Value field, press the End key, type a semicolon (;), and type c:\scripts after the semicolon. Otherwise, if there is no PATH entry in the upper list, click New, type PATH as the Variable Name, and type c:\scripts into the Variable Value field. 4. Click OK to close the dialog boxes. Your sample script should run. Running Scripts with a Shortcut Icon If you have a script you use regularly and run with wscript, I suggest you make a shortcut to the script file.

Unix and Linux enthusiasts rightly sing the praises of Perl and Python, but if you’re going to learn just one language, and you work with Microsoft applications, I recommend learning VBScript. To that end, the next chapter covers VBScript and provides a brief tutorial. Unfortunately, it would take many more pages than we can spare for this book to teach any of the other languages. If you know and love any of the other available scripting languages, I encourage you to use them. You should then be able to translate the examples I give in the remainder of the book to your language of choice.

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